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Financial Services Monitoring Extension Module for Cisco
Application-Oriented Networking Module Product Overview

The Financial Services Monitoring Extension Module is a new set of components for

Cisco

Application-Oriented Networking (AON) Software Release 2.4. It enables

processing of copied and promiscuously received packet traffic and delivers an ordered,

correlated set of observation data to external analytic engines, helping to streamline the

data capture process. The new module consists of specific application message decoders

and filters for Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol.

Features and Benefits

The new Cisco AON Financial Services Monitoring Extension offers the following advantages:

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FIX order flow message framing for promiscuous traffic: FIX order flow message

preprocessing is significantly simplified to enable efficient fast real-time analytics.

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Correlated network events, time stamps, and application messages: The FIX framing

service enables the AON promiscuous mode (PMode) adapter to correlate co-occurring

network events with individual framed FIX messages and a time stamp in microseconds.

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Extensibility: The FIX framing service can be extended by pre-framers and post-framers

as well as specialized send extensions to add filtering or multi-destination sending behavior

to the packet processing. Extensions can be provided through direct extension libraries or

special C or Java libraries that add special processing to the behavior before, during, or

after messaging framing.

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Transparency: The extension enables integration and management as part of the existing

infrastructure. Message-level policy design and enforcement is facilitated by the Cisco AON

Management Console (AMC) and Cisco AON Development Studio (ADS) or through the

standalone command-line interface that is part of the new feature set of AON 2.4.

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Integrated support services: Cisco support provides high-quality, reliable implementation.

Product Architecture

This new set of components extends the PMode processing stack and PMode adapter

components in Cisco AON 2.4. The PMode processing stack provides the capability to receive

copied TCP and UDP packet traffic, process it to preserve the network events, time-stamp the

events at their arrival to the AON capture point, reorder out-of-order packets, and account for

missed bytes. The result is to provide an ordered TCP or UDP segment to the PMode adapter. The

PMode adapter uses an extension framework specialized for processing application messages

distributed within or across TCP and UDP segments. The Financial Services Monitoring Extension

Module consists of specific application message decoders and filters for FIX messages.

The Financial Services Monitoring Extension Module components run on all form factors of Cisco

AON: Cisco Integrated Services Routers, Cisco Catalyst

6500 Series Switches, and standalone

network appliances. The output of the Financial Services Monitoring components, once integrated

with the AON PMode adapter, delivers standard AON monitoring messages in near-real time and